Welcome to the 8th installment of the Pokémon Online Tournament. This tournament will follow the trend of previous POTs and be a standard Best of 3 tournament in the latest iteration of OU. This time being USUM OU. No prize because I hate you all.

Signups will end May 20th and each round will be around a week long from there. Extensions may be given but deadlines will be extended no longer than 2 days before the Semifinals, during and after which deadlines may be longer.

Activity wins will be decided primarily based on PO Forum activity. You may contact your opponent over Discord or Smogon or any other site or service so long as you prove to the hosts that you have done so with a screenshot or log. Activity that is not presented on this forum before the round deadline won't be counted, I'm not checking your Smogon VMs and I don't care how much you cry about it. If you don't like the rules, please don't join, then bitch about them later.

The rules of the tournament will be standard OU rules and bans with the standard ladder clauses;
- Species Clause, Sleep Clause, Self-KO Clause, Team Preview.
- Each match is best of 3.
- In the event of a disconnect mid-game, the course of action will be decided on a case-by-case basis.
- All of the official tournament rules that are applicable to the format apply to this tournament.
- Send your teams to the Host (@Xdevo) if you want a chance at a rematch if your internet is bad.

Activity. We agreed to play today but I asked for a time and he did not respond to that. I was online a few times to see if he was there, but I'm not gonna spend my whole Sunday trying to look for him.